At home Karen is always wanting the heating turned up. But on holiday give her some air con controls and she always try to turn them down as low as possible. In the early hours of today I woke up freezing. Goodness knows what the temperature was set at coupled with the room fan on full meant there was a real chill factor being blown over me.
Anyhow, this morning we decided to go to Key Largo to visit the John Pennekamp State Park. It cost the 3 of us $9.50 between us to gain access to the park. We were planning to hire kayaks, but as I had never been in one before I decided to see if I could physically get in and out of one. With the restricted bend I have in my legs and my back problems I struggle sometimes with things like this. Not very gracefully I eventually eased myself and out. It also felt reasonably comfortable on my back.
We followed a trail through the mangroves. It was very calm and peaceful. Of course Neil wanted to turn it into a race and a couple of times seemed to ram the side of my kayak for the fun of it.
After about 45 minutes I could start to feel my back starting to complain and I could feel muscles in my arms that I obviously don't use to often despite my best gym efforts. All too soon we made our way back to the dock far more confidently than we left.
Karen was patiently waiting for us and despite not being able to find a coffee seemed quite relieved to see us back safely. We made up for it by taking her to a Starbucks drive through whilst on route to Publix to buy some lunch.
Once it was dark we returned back to the apartment and whilst I wrote the blog, Neil watched some baseball and Karen did some chores in preparation for moving day tomorrow.
